The Rhetoric of Cancer

Living alongside cancer. This is something that, I personally, have never heard anyone say. Especially someone with cancer himself. When talking about cancer, we usually use the words "battle", "fight", "survive", etc. These terms give us the idea that cancer is something we should be against, but this podcast from BBC says otherwise. It was mentioned that how can you fight something that is a part of your body? He had a point. Since cancer cells are, technically, pat of us, it would be really hard to be against it. Andrew Graystone compared cancer to other parts of the body. You can't "fight" something if it's a part of you.

Andrew Graystone tackled cancer in a very different way in the podcast. He shared his search for a better language to describe it. Maybe he did this because he felt like he needed something more accurate for him to refer to cancer. He asked different specialists and how they perceived cancer. In the end, I think his point was that we needed to be open to the other side of seeing cancer. Just because something is not doing us any good, doesn't mean we should always act aggressively or negatively.

This was a very enlightening and interesting podcast to listen to. I found it enlightening because we can always learn something new just by listening to someone tell their experiences. This made me realize that to some people, cancer is not totally a bad thing. It opened me to a whole new side of cancer and it made me see it in a new light. I found it interesting because I don't usually hear things like this and I actually found it enjoyable. It made me realize that overcoming something doesn't always mean that you should fight it, sometimes we first need to accept it and just have a positive outlook no matter what happens.